On the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23178449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Smith (0000-0002-8345-7633, 1Internationale Akademie für Philosophie) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-173 |
| Publication date | 1989-08-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Grazer Philosophische Studien (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-9227 • E-ISSN: 1875-6735 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18756735-90000418 |
| OpenAlex | W2015013385 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 3 |
Analytic philosophers have until recently been reluctant to pursue historical investigations into the Central European roots of their own philosophical tradition. The most recent book by Michael Dummett, however, entitled Origins of Analytic Philosophy, shows how fruitful such investigations can be, not only as a means of coming to see familiar philosophical problems in a new light, but also as a means of clarifying what, precisely, ‘analytic philosophy’ might mean. As Dummett points out, the newly fashionable habit of referring to analytic philosophy as ‘Anglo-American’ leads to a ‘grave historical distortion’. If, he says, we take into account the historical context in which analytic philosophy developed, then such philosophy ‘could at least as well be called "Anglo-Austrian"’ (p. 7). We here show the implications of this assertion for a more adequate understanding of the relations between analytic and Continental philosophy.
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |